Jazz by Walter Dean Myers

Author:Walter Dean Myers [Myers, Walter Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House

SESSION I

Bass thumping like death gone happy

Souls dancing in 2/4 time

Lady leans against the upright

Breathing sounds and tasting the rhyme

Of her song

A shaved reed tongue is crying

In the blood dark studio

Drums add bark and grumble

As a trumpet blares something rude

“LET’S GET IT ON.”

It’s a field-holler melody

Dressed in a three-piece suit

A lifetime of could-have-beens

Sliding through a silver flute

It’s our song

JAZZ VOCAL

A sultry love song, sassy as a summer day,

goes dancing from my heart and fills my mind

with such sweet things to say,

Like I love you oh so much

and I tremble when you touch my hand.

Can you understand?

Or can’t you really see

what your beauty does to me

and your every word to me is my command?

It’s our song. Our love song.

Can you hear it just beginning

or am I just imagining those precious sounds?

It’s a warm night, and much to my delight

my heart beats like a cool jazz bass,

making a special place for us to follow

as we walk on the edges of a dream

or is that horn man painting the edges of a love moonbeam?

Are those chords the heart of reason

or is this just the silly season to fall in love?

The melody and beat are blending

to a happy-ever ending for you and me.

It’s a love song. A sultry love song. All right.

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